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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
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Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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The more you do, the more you can do.
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Books wind into the heart.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
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The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
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The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
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Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?
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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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